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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
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I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
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I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
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Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in thi...
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Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ...
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There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
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We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
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Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
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I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
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And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
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I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
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I never met a man I didn't like.
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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
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Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse ...
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
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I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get s...
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Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
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Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start...
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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every ...
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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
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No party is as bad as its leaders.
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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each part...
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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried...
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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long ...
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If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was s...
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All I know is what I read in the papers.
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The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o...
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Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
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There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
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There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
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Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
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I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk ...
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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
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Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoymen...
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers.
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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you.
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoir...
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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- w...
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
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Compared to them I
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up...
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We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR C...
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My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
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Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
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I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
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The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal...
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
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There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat...
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at...
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
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Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can ne...
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Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
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Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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Live so that you wouldn
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they c...
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There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have los...
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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something ...
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't...
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomac...
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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
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This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.
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Lord, let me live until I die.
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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
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Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.
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You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.
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There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a h...
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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
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When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't ...
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session ...
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Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in...
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Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting ...
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You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
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Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold
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You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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All I know is what I read in the papers
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Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meet...
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The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on ...
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a croo...
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...
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Common sense ain't common.
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I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it
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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every mor...
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.
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Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
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For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the po...
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each ot...
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ...
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutio...
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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it...
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you...
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their...
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress peo...
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they do...
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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising a...
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If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising ...
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress ...
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then se...
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United Stat...
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live o...
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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
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Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we neve...
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a Hous...
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, a...
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplo...
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If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper t...
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I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.
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Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
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Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifu...
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The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every mor...
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

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